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1961Bob Dylan plays a showcase at Carnegie Chapter Hall inNew York City to a crowd of 53 people.

1965, Pope Paul the Sixth became the first reigning pontiff to visit theUnited States, as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

1969Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival hits Number One on the album chart, where it stays for four weeks.

1970Janis Joplin dies at age 27 from a drug overdose.

1971Stephen Stills joins David Crosby and Graham Nash at a show at Carnegie Hall inNew York City.

1973David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Neil Young join Stephen Stills & Manassas at a show at the Winterland Ballroom inSan Francisco.

1975Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd hits Number One on both theU.S. andU.K. album charts.

1976, Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the ABC Evening News, becoming the first woman to anchor a network evening newscast.

1978, funeral services were held at the Vatican for Pope John Paul I, who died after only 33 days in office.

1980 "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen hits Number One on the pop chart, where it stays for three weeks.

1980 "Turn It On Again" by Genesis peaks at Number 58 on the pop chart.

1980 During halftime of a game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks present the members of the USC Trojan Marching Band with a platinum album for their contribution to the album Tusk.

1980Reach For The Sky by the Allman Brothers Band peaks at Number 27 on the album chart.

1982 The Smiths make their live debut, playing three songs at the Ritz inManchester,England.

1986 "Love Walks In" by Van Halen peaks at Number 22 on the pop chart.

1986, Two thugs attack and assault CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather yelling "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" Ten years later R.E.M. will write a song called "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"

1993Michael Jordan stuns the sports world by announcing his retirement from the game of basketball and his desire to try baseball.

1994 After hearing a woman complain she didn't want any more kids and she couldn't afford to pay for her husband's operation, U2 singer Bono appears on an Irish radio show and donates a vasectomy his wife had bought him at an auction two weeks before.

1996Edward and Alex Van Halen confirm that former Extreme vocalist Gary Cherone is the new lead singer in Van Halen. He lasts for one album.

2000 Approximately 150,000 copies of Radiohead's new Kid A album that were shipped throughoutEurope are recalled due to a mastering error.

2001, authorities confirmed that Bob Stevens, a photo editor at the supermarket tabloid The Sun in Boca Raton, Florida, had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax. He died the following day, and in the following months four other Americans would die of the disease, which had been transmitted through tainted letters.

2001, with his third inning home run, 42-year-old Rickey Henderson broke Ty Cobb's record to become the leading run-scorer in baseball history.

2003 A webcast by Florida band Hell On Earth, which received international attention because it was reportedly going to feature a live suicide, is derailed by massive web traffic. The band maintains that the concert and suicide both occurred.

2003 Los Angeles police confirm that Courtney Love was arrested two days earlier, on October 2nd, on two separate drug charges.

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